Comments on: Vista and 7: Easily Disable Ease of Access

By: madz

madz — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 13:53:29 +0000

thank you so much!

By: Nick

Nick — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 21:56:24 +0000

Up in the article I provided a link to the modified file “utilman (23kb)”
Click that. It is a zip file. Inside the zip file is the utilman.exe file that you place in to c:\windows\system32

By: Knighted

Knighted — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 21:53:41 +0000

Hi Nick: I am running Vista Home Premium Service Pack 2. Note that I was not able to rename the Utilman.exe file until I assigned myself “full control” under “permissions” of the application file Property Security tab. I renamed Utilman.exe in c:\windows\system32 to Utilman.exe.old as you advised; however, when I clicked the “Ease of Access” button either on my login screen when booting or the button on the lock screen no such message appears on my screen that: “Ease of Access has been disabled by your administrator”. The button’s perimeter just highlights. That is not so bad even if it is good practice to let the end-user kinow what is going on. However, the adverse effect I got sometime thereafter was some sort of system bug in which my pointer froze. I am thinking that maybe the click not being properly processed by some error handling routine in the source code scripting may have caused this system instability. In fact, when I was in the process of changing the name of the application file to “Utilman.exe.old”, Windows warned me of possible system or application instabilities which might arise. Sure enough, my pointer froze even though logging off and back on recovered the ability to move my pointer again. I renamed the file back to “Utilman.exe” for fear of some other problems down the road. Can you advise? And please tell me what you were intending when you talked about extraction and “archiving” the file; you lost me there. Did you have a compressed version of Utilman.exe which you extracted? And since there are security rights which protect this System32 folder, did you also have to change your permissions. I think I am missing some piece of the puzzle here Nick.

By: Nick

Nick — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 04:20:04 +0000

Just rename your utilman.exe.old back to utilman.exe
That will put the original Ease of Access utility back in place.

By: heather

heather — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 04:14:37 +0000

I appear to have the same problem as Ariz I applied the changes and want to reverse it. is there a way i can turn back my computer to restore settings from a previous day? sorry if this seems like a lame question but this is my first blogging experience and I am vintage in age

By: Ariz

Ariz — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 03:06:38 +0000

WTF… nice… never think about this.. ease shit program… make me cant type with my keyboard.. when i press “R”, PC did like “start+R”… n now ease was STFU from my PC…
thanks a lot.. =)

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 23:55:34 +0000

I think what Gary on 12.30.09 was trying to ask about is the problem I am having. I was playing around with Ease of Access to see what it did. Immediately after doing that, my screen colors and text changed to something I do not want and have been unable to get rid of. The boxes are unchecked and the computer has been restarted, but I have same overly-white and different-looking funny screen. Any ideas?

By: Brian Bell

Brian Bell — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 00:39:47 +0000

Also: I can verify Win7 64 bit works just fine with this.

By: Brian Bell

Brian Bell — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 00:39:10 +0000

Awesome!!!! Worked like a charm. Thank you!

By: Keith

Keith — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 09:31:00 +0000

I’m using Vista SP2. Followed exactly word for word what Unit 193 said in post 12 and ended up with a £1,000 brick. It took me 24 hrs to try everything to make the PC work again. Nothing worked and I have spent another 24 hrs re-installing everything from scratch.